🧙🏻♂️ The Challenge 🧙🏻♂️
It’s been five years since the whole world realized what we’ve known for years – the future is digital, and we all need to get on the wagon. Unfortunately, Hogwarts staff and board has been lagging behind, not realizing the immense capabilities that lies in intelligent automation.
💡 The Solution 💡
First of all, we needed to create a digital platform for staff and students board. We decided to store all information about who and what’s going on at Hogwarts in Dataverse, making it easily accessible for both pro- and low-code apps and automations.
In the Hogverse Student Management App, Hogwarts staff can keep track of enrolled students and subjects, they can create teams for teaching and send out notifications to students. In this way, time consuming administrative tasks are cut down to a minimum, and each teacher has more time for magical moments with their students.
With a one-click-only to create a team, teachers and students are all set for online teaching in case of trolls, especially bad weather, or a really good party a pandemic. Teams will also be used for teacher-student communication, as well as automatic notifications in form of an adaptive card in Teams, in case a student is about to fail in a subject:
We are sending out similar notifications if a student has done something particularly stupid, which removes the need for detention and other time consuming, medieval methods of punishments. Contract signing automated using OneFlow connectors in Power Automate, and storing the signed contracts in the safe “Secret of Chambers” – SharePoint, triggered if a student is alarmingly interested in death spells or the doctrine of Dark Magic.
The daily life of a student is also getting a lot easier with this digital transformation. No more carrying around heavy, ancient and outdated books. You will get all the information you need for studying by asking Dobby in the Student Portal.
The Student Portal is always updated, since the AI-assistant is instructed to request the Harry Potter DB (api.potterdb.com) for spells and potions. The Portal also gives them full oversight over test results and grades, so that they always know which subject to focus on.
The Student App to bring with you wherever you go, brings teaching out of the classroom, and is enabling learning on-the-go. Here the students have access to the teachers in their pockets, and they will be encouraged to always keep learning. It is also nice not to have to stand in line in front of prof.Sybills office to get a reading of your fortune after having a coffee.
The implementation of Teams will also bring a whole new world to the students. Getting in-app notifications for urgent matters, being able to communicate with teachers without searching the whole school premises, and having the ability to take that Monday morning 8 o’clock History of Magic lesson from the comfort of your warm bed, will hopefully increase the student satisfaction.
✨ The Outcome ✨
Everyone that has taken a pedagogy class or two knows that a student’s well-being is crucial for their ability to learn. These steps of digital transformation will therefore play an important role in education the future Magicians of the World.
We are also hopeful that the new digital tools provided to Hogwarts’ staff will decrease turnover and long-term sick leave. We have seen too many new hires at Hogwarts leading to the return of Voldemort, and this might mitigate the risk of a new Dark Age.
All in all, a more digital magic world, is a safer place for all of us Muggles. 🪄